Just bought a new laptop with a ssd and have looked at tweaks to keep the writing to it down. I am curious as to what AV product might have the fewest also. This has nohing to do with protection just looking for one that has the least impact to drive. thanks
I've done some tests while using ESET Nod32 AV v.8. I compared Macrium Reflect daily incremental image size of system partition when AV was installed with images when it was not. Image size was usually 50-100 MB larger when AV was installed. It didn't matter how I configured AV so IMO most changes were probably done when AV updated it's signature databases and when it was writing log files. Off-topic: I don't think that AVs would hurt your SSD by I/O activity.
I agree. The fragility of SSDs has been overstated IMO. I have used SSDs in my machines for many years now, and never suffered from performance degradation or them wearing out. From the AVs I have used over the years, none of them do a ton of writes. Mostly reads. Seems maybe those with a sandbox or virtualization component may do a bit more writes, but not enough to worry about from what I have seen.
https://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes This is from 2014. Modern drives are even better.
Better to give the ad revenue to the original source, who actually did the testing. http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes
